All Health Service Journal articles in 30 October 2008
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News
Bed occupancy linked to hospital infections - Conservatives
Conservative Party research has linked hospital ward overcrowding with infections such as MRSA and C difficile.
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News
Defence ministry doctors accept pay deal
The British Medical Association has formally accepted a new pay deal for GPs working for the Ministry of Defence.
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Everyday technology could improve patient care - King's Fund
The NHS is failing to use everyday technology such as emails to improve patient care and save money, according to two reports published today by the King's Fund.The think tank argues that well-established technologies and more advanced systems could allow patients to book GP appointments via the internet, receive routine ...
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HSJ Knowledge
Ali Mohammed on meeting staff needs
You really know you are 40 when you admit to being 35 but are actually about to turn 50. You also know you are 40 when you have fancy paperclips instead of plain office-supply ones.
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Blogs
What's behind the jump in GP visits?
So officials are mystified about the surge in the number of GP visits made this spring.
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HSJ Knowledge
NHS personal branding - core values
In the first of our series on personal branding in the NHS, Debbie Smith explains why individuals and organisations must project the right image
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HSJ Knowledge
Health information: tackling the prostate cancer taboo
A play by Benjamin Zephaniah has helped tackle the stigma of prostate cancer. Suresh Rambaran explains how it came about
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Comment
Neil Goodwin on charismatic leadership
Leadership was ever present during a recent vacation in New England. There was, of course, the national presidential election and the administration's financial bailout debacle, which The New York Times summarised as an absence of national leadership.
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Comment
Ruth Thorlby on the price of healthcare in the US
For a new arrival to the US, embarking on the Health Foundation's Harkness Fellowship in New York, it is hard to take in the full litany of facts about the 46 million Americans with no health insurance.
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HSJ Knowledge
NHS rationing: the time of their lives
An ageing population means the question of whether some patients have more right to treatment than others will increasingly cause financial and moral conflicts. So whose quality-adjusted life year is it anyway, asks Alison Moore
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News
Bill Moyes warns against clawing back foundation trust surpluses
The head of Monitor has warned it would be 'completely bizarre' for the Department of Health to claw back foundation trust surpluses.Executive chairman Bill Moyes' comments came after HSJ revealed the Treasury was considering holding on to all or part of the surplus to ease the financial crisis.
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Scotland unveils cancer care plan
The Scottish government has published an action plan for improving cancer care and support.
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Economic downturn 'may hit medical research'
Medical research funding is expected to suffer because of the economic downturn, experts have warned.
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Luton and Dunstable investigates deadly E coli outbreak
Luton and Dunstable Hospital foundation trust is investigating the source of a drug-resistant E coli outbreak that has been linked to the deaths of two babies on its neonatal intensive care unit.
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Blogs
PbR: bugs, buts and bull riding
Ever wondered which has the greatest number of bugs - Microsoft Windows or NHS HRG3.5?
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Comment
Mark Goldman on a happy ending for NHS top-ups
Are you sitting comfortably? Then I will begin. Once upon a time there was an elusive apostrophe. He lived in the NHS and was always causing mischief with his friend 'patients'. Together they would hide from the managers and clinicians.
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HSJ Knowledge
Six steps to integrated NHS workforce planning: step one
Are you considering your healthcare workforce plans? The Six Steps Methodology to Integrated Workforce Planning can help.
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News
Maternity services growth fails to keep up with births
Maternity services faced growing pressure on capacity and staff last year despite government commitments to improve safety and choice.Newly released reports from regional midwifery officers show midwife numbers in many areas failed to keep up with the rising birth rate in 2007-08.
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Unite opens NHS pay ballot
Union Unite today began balloting NHS members on the current three-year pay deal. The ballot will ask 100,000 members if they are prepared to take industrial action, including strike action, in protest at the pay deal.
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News
DH appoints autism adviser
Elaine Hill has been appointed as the specialist adviser for autism at the Department of Health.